Tender holes, they hold still;
They live within and always will.
Failed promises and splintered parts,
Unfulfilled love and broken hearts,
The presence of little black infinitudes,
Filling the blank space with plenitudes.
We all have them, they are rife;
The recurring miseries of our life.
Sometimes, I forget they are there;
Oftentimes, I feel acutely their despair.
I then sink down into their hole,
Caressed a little, deep in my soul.
They are a part of me and I am theirs.
Fill them up, they would no longer be there.
Drain them down and they reflect despair.
Ignore them, they would no longer be mine,
Still existing in all their tenderness,
My holes still, thru the ages of time.
Sometimes, I don't understand the poem. I understand this one.
Lovely words that give me chills. We all have tender holes. I love those two words 'Tender Holes'. Thanks for sharing.
You are a master at rhyme that doesn't smack of simple thinking. Far from it! Yes, we all do have our "tender holes," but we seldom stop to consider their presence. They just are. Excellent write!
the Buddha Gautama said that within each and every pinhole of our body there is a whole city with its infrastructure and traffic. . . an interesting approach to the problem of being tender outside and solid in the internal principles. Cheers, alex
Those "Tender Holes" are imaginary to some, but we all have them nonetheless. They can be our despair or salvation . . . Gotta love those "Tender Holes."
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
In the Whirlwind is a poetic storm that frees history from the cages of corruption and puts it in the hands of everyday people. Words are weaved into a new fashion statement that has nothing to do with runways but everything to do with projects!
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Lovely words that give me chills. We all have tender holes. I love those two words 'Tender Holes'. Thanks for sharing.
Rebecca